Searching subversion history (full text)

If you are running Windows have a look at SvnQuery. It maintains a full text index of local or remote repositories. Every document ever committed to a repository gets indexed. You can do google-like queries from a simple web interface.

Update April, 2022

VisualSVN Server 5.0 comes with a new full-text search feature that allows you to search through the contents and history of your repositories in the web interface. Try out the feature on the demo server.

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svn log in Apache Subversion 1.8 supports a new --search option. So you can search Subversion repository history log messages without using 3'rd party tools and scripts.

svn log --search searches in author, date, log message text and list of changed paths.

See SVNBook | svn log command-line reference.

git svn clone <svn url>

git log -G<some regex>